Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapid reading of most of the play loads one almost to agree with Mr. Mansfield that the play comes pretty close to being "a dirty book" and "full of commonplace smut," but I take it that since the epoch-making decision of Judge Woolsey in New York, this makes little difference if "art" is proven. It certainly has not been proven in the case of this play...
Beginning its season with a joint concert with Yale, the Harvard Glee Club will sing at Woolsey Hall, New Haven, on the evening before the Harvard-Yale football game. The second performance on its schedule will take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday, November...
There Governor Cross of Connecticut came forward with outstretched hand to greet Harvard Alumnus Roosevelt. Through crowded streets the visitors drove to Yale's auditorium, Woolsey Hall, to attend the University's 233rd Commencement. While an orchestra played the overture to Die Meister singer, the President, leaning on his son's arm, marched upon the platform in black gown and took his seat among notables. One by one Yale's graduate students were given their degrees. William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps, himself unexpectedly presented with a doctorate of laws by President Angell, turned to citing the University...
...Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded...
...only wore beards but inscribed House of David on their shirts. And their games were booked so that in many a town the Murphy team played a few days ahead of the House of David nine. The House of David obtained its injunction from Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey, famed for his literate opinion in the case of Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 29). Citing the case of National Circle, Daughters of Isabella v. National Order of Daughters of Isabella, Judge Woolsey ruled that the defendant's use of the House of David's name was unauthorized and unfair...